grant LOCK TABLES, SELECT,ALTER,INSERT,CREATE ON `databasetoupgrade%`.* to 'someuser'@'localhost';
those are the privileges I gave a users that needs to be able to ALTER a table (add columns, ...)
the mysql documentation states that alter, insert, create is needed, but even with lock tables and select permissions, I still get the error that the user does not have enough permissions to do ALTER.
When I give the user all privileges on those tables/databases is works.
Does anyone know what the EXACT privileges are that I need to do ALTER? Of which one did I forget in the list above?
This post can be closed, this fixed it:
grant ALTER, LOCK TABLES, SELECT, INSERT, CREATE
I might have screwed up somewhere in my previous commands...